Time to change the Picnic Facuet???

Beermeister32 · Dec 10, 2020

Return springs are a must!

DarrellQ · Dec 10, 2020

HB2 HughBHomeBrew said:
There was another thread about this recently. This is my Pluto gun "conversion" from picnic taps. The weight of the guns (these are the stainless ones) is nice for keeping them in place. Nice laminar flow - no foam - when I went to 8-10 feet of 3/16 ID tubing EVA Beer Line Tubing - 3/16 in (5 mm) ID. I have my regulator at 14 PSI and that fridge is around 35-38F (but I'm not totally sure of that temp).

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I'm going to be getting into kegging soon, like your setup as it fits my situation. Out of curiosity, how often do you have to clean the lines?

HB2 HughBHomeBrew · Dec 10, 2020

DarrellQ said:
I'm going to be getting into kegging soon, like your setup as it fits my situation. Out of curiosity, how often do you have to clean the lines?

What I'm doing with this setup with Sanke kegs is when I finish a keg, I connect the coupler to a keg that has been filled with Star San (which is how I store my kegs ready to be purged with CO2 and filled with beer) and run some Star San through the line/pluto gun. Then then coupler and line and pluto gun are ready til the next keg is ready.

Could do the same with Corny kegs/ball locks but probably easier there to just disassemble and clean by hand. Which wouldn't be hard with my setup either if you don't have a keg for flushing with Star Stan - just dunk the coupler, line, pluto gun in soapy water, then rinse water, then I guess you could dunk it all in Star San too but I don't think necessary for storage once clean and dry - same as anything else in your cold side/serving side.

jack13 · Dec 10, 2020

Beermeister32 said:
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Nice!

Samson's Brew&Ski · Dec 11, 2020

Beermeister32 said:
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this is a cool to-go keg!!

balrog · Dec 11, 2020

but it's only a serving size of one

JAReeves · Dec 20, 2020

Not to hijack this terribly, but can you bottle from one of those flow-control taps directly on the keg? I use the Biermuncher Bottle Filler system (lol), which just fits into a picnic tap, when I need to bottle from my kegs. I love these alternatives, just wondering if I would still be able to do that or something like it with some of the solutions proposed here (pluto tap, etc.).